shopping cart family<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
the shopping cart family wheels by each day<\/p>\n
an assortment of children, most fitting in the cart<\/p>\n
they have no car, walking to the grocery store<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
faded mismatched clothes and unkempt hair<\/p>\n
he is always with her, unlike most couples<\/p>\n
where food shopping is woman’s work<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
they have food stamps with little extra<\/p>\n
no surprises for the kids at the checkout<\/p>\n
beer for him coming from bottle money collected<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
they pay no rent, car insurance, medical bills<\/p>\n
working for cash when they can get it<\/p>\n
masters at transportation in order to survive<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
years later their children come to my yard sale<\/p>\n
all grown up having moved away<\/p>\n
eager to say Hello<\/em> and reminisce<\/p>\n <\/p>\n without shame they laugh about the cart<\/p>\n having done nothing to help back then<\/p>\n I find myself so proud of them, hiding my guilt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" shopping cart family the shopping cart family wheels by each day an assortment of children, most fitting in the cart they have no car, walking to the grocery store faded mismatched clothes and unkempt hair he is always with her, unlike most couples…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24567,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions\/24567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}